A.What
I think happened to atmospheric conditions on the earth after the Great Flood
would explain the cause of the ice age/s. This explanation doesn't
exactly have anything to do with "creation" except that it was due to
what God did on Day 2 of the creation week that the Great Flood produced the
effects it did after the floodwaters receded.

The geological explanation of ice
ages from an evolutionary, old earth perspective is that any given ice age occurred
over a span of 10s to 100s of thousands of years.An ice age involves the slow encroachment of glaciers (frozen
rivers) further and further south from the North pole (and vice versa from the
South pole) as the earth goes through a period of global cooling, i.e. the
polar ice caps, both north and south grow very large. Then a long period
of global warming occurs, and the polar ice caps shrink back. Millions of
years later the process occurs again.

However, if the earth never really
experienced extremes in the weather before the flood, due to the greenhouse
effect caused by the water vapor canopy created by God on Day 2 of creation,
there would have been no polar ice caps before the flood.There is, in fact, a lot of evidence that
there were no polar ice caps on earth at one time. After the flood, the
greenhouse effect caused by the canopy was lost, because the canopy was
lost.The result was that huge amounts
of snow began to fall on the poles where for the first time extremely cold
temperatures now occurred. The snow and ice accumulated and pushed far
down and up from the two poles--a great ice age. The explanation that
there were many ice ages covering vast periods of time by evolutionists is
simply a product of their bias towards reading extreme age into every
geological formation they observe.An
alternate explanation is that with such catastrophic changes in atmospheric
weather patterns, the formation of polar ice caps and extreme differences in
temperatures in various parts of the earth, the weather patterns on earth were
in great flux.A large amount of
melting and refreezing would have been taking place--perhaps for 100s of
years--causing rapid movement of the ice fronts towards and away from the warmer
regions extending away from the equator. Finally, the overall weather
patterns reached a fairly stable equilibrium--the result being the fairly
stable polar ice caps we have today.

If you are interested in reading
more about this subject, I recommend, THE GENESIS FLOOD by Whitcomb and
Morris.Look in the index under
"Glacial period" and "Glaciation, continental."